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US News: Ain-Amerin Daayiee Abdullah (62) is one of the few publicly gay imams the world.

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A GAY IMAM'S STORY: 'THE DIALOGUE IS OPEN ISLAM – 10 YEARS AGO WASN'T'

Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed has risked anger and jury to further the e of gay Mlims. Ten years after he tablished Europe's first clive mosque, he explor what has changed. * imam paris gay *

But Imam Daayiee Abdullah – believed to be the only openly gay imam the Ameris – is proud of his story.

But as a gay man Ameri, he saw that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Mlims had unmet spirual needs and he beme an imam to provi muny support. "Beg an openly gay imam and havg been intified as such, I do get a lot of feedback and also kickback, but that's OK, " said Imam Daayiee Abdullah, of Washgton, D.

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Performg funeral r for a gay Mlim who died of AIDS. But not all of them are gay. Many worshippers at the Light of Reform Mosque are not gay.

"Beg an openly gay imam and havg been intified as such, I do get a lot of feedback and also kickback, but that's OK, ” he said. “If you go to most Mlim scholars, they're gog to tell you that homosexual acts are a s Islam; that there's no way around , ” said Dr. Hse Rashid, an adjunct profsor of relign at Hofstra Universy and ntributor to a report on homosexualy U.

“But the tradn was and remas that homosexualy is a s Mlim tradn.

THERE ARE 8 OPENLY GAY IMAMS THE WORLD: DAAYIEE ABDULLAH

Lia Darj photographed people var untri who are both gay and Mlim. Among her subjects were openly gay imams Europe and the Uned Stat. * imam paris gay *

The var scholars who ntributed to the project’s report emphasized that there is no sgular terpretatn of homosexualy Islam. "I thk Daayiee is tryg to say, 'Y, I n be gay and I n be a Mlim, and I n tend to people who are also gay and Mlim, ' that this is part of their inty as a human beg and that the relign of Islam teach people to embrace all aspects of their humany, " he said. Though is unknown how many Amerin Mlims or Mlims around the world are gay, a growg number are vyg to be heard.

The film “I Am Gay and Mlim” tracks several gay Morocn men as they explore their relig and sexual inti. Last year, a gay-iendly mosque opened Paris – Europe’s first. Muhs Hendricks, an openly gay imam Capetown, South Ai, has for years been leadg ngregants and preachg that homosexualy and Islam are not patible.

WHAT ’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND MLIM

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Andre Carson, D-Ind., have both advoted for gay rights. Ain-Amerin Daayiee Abdullah (62) is one of the few publicly gay imams the world.

Do Islam approve of homosexualy? Durg my rearch Sdi Arabia, I found posive terpretatn on homosexualy Quran. Is difficult to be a gay imam publicly?

IMAM FRANCE MARRI TWO GAY MLIMS

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There are 12 gay imams the world and eight are openly gay. It is not difficult for an dividual to be openly a gay imam but pends on the cultural ntext.

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In the Wt, there is much more acceptance of gay imams or Mlim gays. Lia Darj photographed people var untri who are both gay and Mlim. Among those she terviewed were openly gay imams Europe and the Uned Stat.

LUDOVIC ZAHED ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MUSLIM CLERICS IN THE WORLD

But as wh many gay Mlims she terviewed and photographed, unsettlg ner dialogu are takg place beneath the surface. “I started wh the notn that was sful (to be gay) and that those who practiced were problematic at bt, ” he said. Darj wanted to learn more about gay Mlims and their personal stggl.

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“I am not gay and I am not Mlim, and I e as an outsir.

In Paris, Darj spent time wh Ludovic-Mohamed Zahed, an openly gay imam who opened the cy’s first gay-iendly mosque. “Beg Mlim, Arabic and gay and th a member of several mory groups opened my ey: Mori are beg discrimated agast, particularly tim of enomic crisis.

We have to know more about Islam, and we have to unrstand who we actually are orr to fight homophobia. That was until she met openly gay imam Daayiee Abdullah, a former Southern Baptist turned Mlim who studied the Quran Beijg and opened a gay mosque Washgton.

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LUDOVIC ZAHED ONE OF THE FIRST OPENLY GAY MUSLIM CLERICS .

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